The StaxWP Blog
Practical guides on building, securing and scaling WordPress sites — from the team behind BuddyBuilder, Visibility Logic and Stax Theme.
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WordPress security is quite key for your website. WordPress in itself has good security measures in itself. However, similar to other platform websites out there, WordPress websites are also vulnerable to attacks. These attacks can be in form of malware or malicious actors. It is recommended to carry out best WordPress security practices such as […]
Tips & Tricks
Google Analytics can be used to track Ecommerce conversion metrics within your Ecommerce website. This will help in determining whether your website is getting the desired leads, number of customers abandoning their carts as well as any other shopping activity. Conversion Tracking is hence important in the above scenarios. Within this article, we will look […]
Tips & Tricks
Knowing how your site visitors interact with your website is quite crucial. This is where Google Analytics comes in. Integrating Google Analytics to your WordPress website shouldn’t be a difficult task for beginners to carry out. Within this article, we will look into What Google Analaytics is, its importance and some of the ways that […]
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Call To Action (CTA) Buttons encourage users to carry out a specific action within your Website. Examples of these actions include: Register, download, Subscribe and many more. CTA buttons can be used in a variety of ways including promoting an offer for a product, of which may lead to more conversions. It is hence important […]
WordPress Plugins
ACF fields can be added to your website with the help of the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin. Content visibility on the other hand can be applied with the help of the Visibility Logic For Elementor plugin. These two plugins can actually work hand in hand to implement content visibility. It is however important to […]
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Carrying out a backup to your website is a crucial maintenance step that needs to be carried out. Backups really help in restoration of your website in the case something goes wrong. For example if you encounter a fatal error within your website, or a malware attack, if you had a backup in place, you […]
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Upon carrying out actions such as SSL certificate installation or migration of your website, you are may encounter mixed content warnings in your website. These warnings can be easily traced within the browser console. Within this guide we will look into what are mixed content warnings and how to go about fixing them. Table Of […]
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When trying to upload a large file such as a theme zip file, a plugin zip file or even a large image, you may encounter the error “The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.” or “[file size] exceeds the maximum upload size for this site.” Fixing this error is not difficult. In this […]
WordPress Plugins
Overview The Visibility Logic Pro plugin can be used to determine visibility of elements or sections within your site pages based on the Easy Digital Download (EDD) meta and purchases. Within this article, we will look into how we can use the EDD plugin together with the Visibility Logic plugin to determine the visibility of […]
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Overview It is important to know the performance metrics of your website so that you are in a position to gauge the overall user experience of visitors within your website. This also enlightens you on the required improvements to your website. There are a number of tools that would be of great help in analyzing […]
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Overview Since the introduction of WordPress 5.0, WordPress has a new editor in place known as Gutenberg. This is now the default editor that WordPress uses. Below is a sample preview of a new page while using the default editor: This editor contains a collection of blocks and patterns to assist in editing your pages. […]
Tips & Tricks
WordPress has become a powerhouse in the CMS industry and the more it grows, the more its users are looking for various ways to optimize it for SEO. Out of the box, WordPress is usually SEO friendly but not SEO ready hence the need to optimize it. Even so, most users just do the basic SEO […]
